Application and user setup can be greatly simplified and spool control progressively centralized. Just send all your ERP output to output queues monitored by the Spool Manager/400 server. Then set up the default and explicit handling entries within Spool Manager/400 to manage all spool traffic on your system dynamically.

When a spooler arrives on any monitored queue Spool Manager/400 applies your directives to it. These could include redirecting to a printer queue, changing attributes, duplicating to another queue, in fact any number of transformations you wish to perform on the basic output.

With all your spool file handling in one place application code can be progressively returned to vanilla, or local modifications simply not reapplied to the next release of your ERP software. The correct handling for new spool files can be added quickly, user requests for spool redirection reduced and ongoing user and operator training eliminated.